#LightPollution has stolen majestic views of #stars and #constellations.

#CameraPollution has stolen the ability to feel at ease in public and private spaces.

🏷️ T a g s #Dystopia #dystopic #humanity #InvasionOfPrivacy #ModernLife #ModernLiving #Orwell #Orwellian #sousveillance #surveillance

Holborn Station and Sousveillance

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2009/10/holborn-station-and-sousveillance/

Sousveillance (pronounced /suːˈveɪləns/, French pronunciation: [suvɛjɑ̃s]) as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity,[1] typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u804C65q_Jk

When this London Underground employee (now thought to be Ian Morbin) had a bad day at work, he thought, like the rest of us, that it would be forgotten by morning.  Many of us take our stresses out inappropriately - whether it's on the call centre worker or a traffic warden - occasionally on a customer.  What he hadn't counted on was Jonathan Macdonald whipping out his camera and recording the event.  We're wearily resigned to CCTV monitoring our every move - but handheld cameras present a more intimate and dispassionate view of events.

Expanding on my comments in the original post -

The pro-gun lobby often says "A well armed society is a polite society." The implication being that you don't go around being aggressive when anyone could pull a gun on you.

With the rise of sousveillance -  I wonder if we'll see a rise in professionalism and politeness. Because, you never know who is recording for posterity.

There are two problems I have with this:

I hope that "Ian" doesn't lose his job - I hope that he realises what an arse he has been and learns to treat customers with a bit more respect.

This video is presented out of context and - although I trust Jonathan's reporting of events - we do only have his word for it.  He may very well have chopped off the footage which completely exonerates Ian.  Although I can't quite conceive what that would be.

Meta

It's interesting to notice how the blogosphere reacts to these events.  Multiple repostings often fail to mention the originating site.  The conversation is split between YouTube, Jonathan's blog and those who have reposted it.

Is it better to keep conversations separate in this way? Leave the drooling YouTube commentators  away from the TFL blogs - or should diverse communities try to interact to keep a canonical view of what is being said about this incident?

#sousveillance #tfl

Zorgen over de @politie, die steeds meer camera's inzetten bij demonstraties.

De inzet van camera's met realtime #gezichtsherkenning is volgens assistent professor techniekfilosofie #MarjoleinLanzing van de
@uva_amsterdam
een no-go.

[ Hier 7 oktober 2024 op het Damrak een met realtime livestream team, tijdens demonstratie, team
met directe live zender 1 #sousveillance ]

#demonstratierecht @bitsoffreedom

So… who is this guy? What is his name? Does he have a LinkedIn?

#FuckICE #fucktrump #fakecops #facialrecognition #surveillance #sousveillance

"the most striking trend in recent years has not been sousveillance of the powerful, but what — for want of a better word — I am going to call “peerveillance”. With the help of gadgets and subscriptions from technology companies, we are increasingly turning our gaze on each other, whether through cameras on our cycle helmets or our rapid adoption of camera doorbells such as Amazon’s Ring devices.

The next step might be smart glasses such as the Meta Ray-Ban Display, which Meta unveiled last week. The ordinary-looking glasses can do some handy things, such as overlaying an arrow on to your vision so you don’t have to keep looking down at your phone for directions. But they can also take photos and record videos, and some fear that at some point facial recognition technology could be added to them, too, so users could know in real time who they were looking at.

It would be dangerously fatalistic to simply shrug because privacy is “already dead”. There is a qualitative difference between the ability of people to film you or your children with a phone or doorbell, which are highly visible, versus their ability to do it undetected (unless you see the small “recording” light on the glasses), let alone to apply facial recognition. The potential benefits — perhaps a user could be spared embarrassment when they bumped into someone whose name they had forgotten — seem entirely outweighed by the obvious risks of this technology in the hands of creeps and stalkers."

https://www.ft.com/content/9fca417e-f2db-4e5c-a252-66a15007e526

#Surveillance #Peerveillance #Sousveillance #Privacy #DataProtection

"In rare lightning speed, the SF government changed their site within hours of this site going live. I can't get data from it anymore.

--->

"With “Find My Parking Cops,” technologist Riley Walz reverse engineered San Francisco’s parking ticket system to place cops on a map seconds after they issue parking citations—in theory, helping people avoid spots where officers are handing out tickets.

“I can see every ticket seconds after it's written,” Walz wrote on X. So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.”

On the Find My Parking Cops site, visitors can see a map of San Francisco with pins locating parking cops, as well as lines tracking their shift routes, how much money they’ve fined people during their shifts, and for what violation the tickets are cited. Most are “street cleaning” violations, where someone didn’t move their car on designated days. Some are for “hill parking,” a citation I, a lifelong East Coast driver, had never heard of until today, that fines parkers for failing to curb the wheels of a vehicle on a hill in a way that would prevent it from rolling. A bunch of expired meter tickets and parking in tow-away areas also pop up on Wednesday morning."

https://www.404media.co/find-my-parking-cops-tracks-officers-handing-out-tickets-all-around-san-francisco/

#USA #California #SF #SanFrancisco #Sousveillance

@PattyHanson Ah, but you are. Saying the word is important to mobilize more people which creates pressure on reps (5Calls, social media, etc) and motivation to organize from below.

There are other actions people can take to get more involved and do something concrete.

For example,

- #sousveillance and proactive identification of traitors
- disruption of their logistics by keeping them awake at their hotels and houses
- setting up or joining a local #RapidResponse group

https://filmthepolicedc.com

#FuckICE #ACAB #sousveillance #FightBackDamnIt